The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

The Bruins needed to win Game 7 Monday against the Maple Leafs and patience was thrown out the door as if it was used skate-tape.

Claude Julien shook up his two most struggling offensive lines Monday, flipping right wings Tyler Seguin and Jaromir Jagr. Seguin moved to the third line with Rich Peverley and Chris Kelly, and Jagr worked with Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron.

The Bruins won that game in overtime, and Julien kept those configurations intact for Game 1 against the Rangers on Thursday and got another overtime win.

Yet with still a lack of productivity from both Jagr and Seguin — not to mention a lack of responsibility by Seguin on Ryan McDonagh’s goal at the end of the second period Thursday with a weak clear — the question is whether Julien reverts back to the previous lines.

The argument against making the move is twofold: the Bruins have won both games and each line could use more than two games to foster chemistry. Of course, the Bruins were inches from losing both and in the playoffs, the aforementioned patience is often an unwelcome guest.

The arguments for are rather obvious.

Marchand, Bergeron and Seguin were the best line during the regular season. The three have chemistry. When they're together and at their best, it's a difference-maker.

But they fell apart against the Maple Leafs. It wasn’t just Seguin, though; Marchand and Bergeron were both very average offensively, at times nonexistent.

What happened in the first six games of the Toronto series was a result of them all being off, and they lost confidence by the end. Taking Seguin off the line was a shake-up, a way to get everyone to stop thinking and just play.

Now Bergeron and Marchand have found their games. Bergeron had the tying and winning goals in Game 7 — with Seguin doing the dirty work on the latter while Jagr had a skate issue — and Marchand was electric in Game 1 Thursday, turning Ryan McDonagh into a pretzel at one point and then skating and battling hard to go to the net for the OT goal.

They had some OK moments with Jagr in Game 7, but not many Thursday. Jagr does most of his work on his own, anyway, and can’t keep up with Bergeron and Marchand.

Down on the third line, the thought was that the speed on the edge from Peverley and Seguin could generate some chances. Although Peverley drew three penalties Thursday — two as the direct result of his speed — they generated few chances in transition.

Seguin got a lot of shots Thursday, but most were on the power play. His game is still off and in two games he hasn’t clicked with Kelly and Peverley.

“I don’t think right now it’s a matter of him not playing hard,” Julien said of Seguin “It’s more of a matter that I think people expect and we expect that he should be a little bit more productive, be able to make a few more plays and be a bit more of a threat than right now like some other players that you’re hearing from other teams having a hard time finding that.

“If he finds his game we know how much of a threat he can be and we’ve got to keep working with him and that’s what we’re trying to do here.”

The way to work with Seguin may be to reunite him with his now-flying former linemates.

Before Jagr was moved up, Peverley and Kelly were figuring out ways to work with the 41-year-old in their five games together and were markedly better in Games 5 and 6 vs. the Leafs.

“I thought actually, the first game it took a little bit figuring out what everyone did, but after that I thought we had a lot of chances,” Peverley said of playing with Jagr. “We created chances, maybe we didn’t produce as much as we wanted, but creating those chances was definitely a confidence-builder.”

Here are Peverley, Kelly and Jagr’s Corsi ratings, game-by-game, in the five games they played together, starting with Game 2 vs. Toronto.

Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6

Jagr 5 6 -11 14 8

Kelly 3 3 -10 11 9

Peverley 2 9 -18 14 7

In the two games since, Peverley and Kelly are a combined 3 Corsi rating with Seguin.

The switch paid off. The Bruins not only won Game 7, but finally got production from Bergeron and Marchand. But it’s still been a bunch of zeroes from Seguin and Jagr.

It may be time to see how they can do back in their previous arrangements.